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		soulofmischief 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When stick figures fought The fallacy in question would be sharpshooter's fallacy. Selection bias is when a sample misrepresents the population.

taneq 5 months ago [–]

I kinda feel like these are two different views on the same basic 'mismatch-between-sampling-and-distribution' fallacy, what am I missing here?

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